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latrocinium

latrocinium

Latin

Noun

latrōcinium n (genitive latrōciniī); second declension

  1. Military service for pay.
  2. (figuratively) Robbery, banditry, highway robbery, piracy, brigandage; pillage, plundering.
  3. (figuratively) An act of banditry or brigandage.
  4. (figuratively) A band of robbers.
  5. (figuratively) Villany, roguery, fraud.

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative latrōcinium latrōcinia
genitive latrōciniī latrōciniōrum
dative latrōciniō latrōciniīs
accusative latrōcinium latrōcinia
ablative latrōciniō latrōciniīs
vocative latrōcinium latrōcinia

Descendants

References

  1. “ladro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2